We are honoured by the graceful presence and the important contribution of our exceptional guest : Geneviève Noufflard, whose parents, the painters Berthe Noufflard and André Noufflard, (please visit www.noufflard.fr) were Vernon Lee’s friends from 1925 to 1935. Berthe Noufflard painted several portraits of Miss Paget and translated and published an anthology of V. Lee’s texts (Etudes et réflexions sur l’art, Corrêa, 1938). Geneviève Noufflard recollects some of her mother’s memories of her first visit to Vernon Lee’s Villa Il Palmerino and of the latter’s first stay at the Noufflards’ family home.